Re: ext2 filesystem corruptions back from dead? 2.4.0-test11

Alexander Viro
2000-11-24T06:42:16Z

On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote:

> What the F*** does that have to do with the price of eggs in china, heh?
> Just maybe if you could follow a thread, you would see that that Alex Viro
> has pointed out that changes in the FS layer as dorked things.

?
If you have a l-k feed from future - please share. I'm not saying that
fs/* is not the source of that stuff, but I sure as hell had not said
that it is. I simply don't know yet.

> Since there have been not kernel changes to the driver that effect the
> code since 2.4.0-test5 or test6 and it now randomly shows up after five or
> six revisions out from the change, and the changes were chipset only.

generic_unplug_device() was changed more or less recently. I doubt that
it is relevant, but...